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Strasbourg, J. Gothofredum Bauer, 1760. In .4 °. Two parts in 1 vol. Noble coat of arms on the title page, with 7 engraved and folded plates, slow files, a detached, reddened plate and, coeval binding in marbled hardcover, missing spine, worn. Ex libris of Prince de Tayllerand on the counterplate.
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First edition. of this important story of the early days of document-based printing (reproduced in facsimile in the 7 plates), in which the author presents the example of Gutenberg who had begun his experiments by printing in Strasbourg. The documents were destroyed when the Prussians bombed Strasbourg in 1870.
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